Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) That the 24-hour phone hotline staffed by lawyers provided by the New South Wales Aboriginal Legal Service has had its funding cut by the Federal Government, and

(ii) that New South Wales legislation requires police to call an Aboriginal legal hotline when arresting an Indigenous person, and that this service was a recommendation of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody; and

(b) calls on the Government to restore the funding to this critical service.